Chris Todd insists Truro City’s controversial ground move was not the sole reason why he and manager Lee Hodges sensationally quit the club on Tuesday.

Just hours before the White Tigers were due to play Weston-super-Mare, Hodges and Todd informed chairman Pete Masters of their decision to leave the club, although they were in the dug-out as Truro played out a 1-1 draw that evening.

Truro’s controversial relocation to Torquay as part of the plans to build a Stadium for Cornwall that the club will use in future has not gone down well with everyone, but Todd says a culmination of things going back two years led to his decision to follow Hodges out of the exit door.

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“I am led to believe – and so is Hodgey – that the club was making the right decision and Pete was going the right way about it by moving them to Torquay to then give the opportunity to then get the stadium up and built and ready for next season,” Todd told Cornwall Live.

“If that materialises, then he has lived up to his word and fair play to him. Obviously then, the club will be back in its true home of Cornwall and the club can move forward and I do wish that to happen.

“I don’t know the ins and outs of it, we were just told very vaguely that we were moving to Torquay and that was it. We were moving so they could build the new stadium and as far as we believe, it was the right thing and hopefully that does happen but… who knows?

“It’s football, things do happen and you think: ‘how the heck has that happened?’ But it’s not just because of that, we haven’t left because of that reason, there have been a lot of things that have built up over two years.

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“Lee said that he just felt flat and he couldn’t give what he should be giving and he’s a good manager. You need to be in the right frame of mind to do any job and you have to be 100 per-cent behind what you are doing because it’s a tough old job.”

Todd added: “I feel for the fans, I really, really do. It must be horrible for them because you want your team on your doorstep because that is what football is all about. It’s about supporting your team and they are not at home.

“But it is what it is. We have no disrespect for anyone at the club, we wish everyone well and we move on. That’s football.”

Hodges was the man responsible for bringing Todd to Truro and the former Swansea, Exeter City and Torquay United stopper was enjoying his role as number two.

However, he felt a loyalty towards Hodges and when he decided the time was right to resign, Todd was in no doubt that he should follow suit.

“Things haven’t been right… I don’t want to go too much into detail, but we haven’t felt that it felt right,” Todd added. “Hodgey felt it wasn’t right with whatever, he hasn’t felt himself and it got to the point where Hodgey was going to leave and he was the one that brought me to the football club.

“I said all along that the only reason I came to the club in the first place was to help him and as soon as he made that decision, I was always going to make that decision and back him on everything he was telling me and we made the decision to do the same thing.”